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    A couple of fashion pet peeves...

    Classic has a very strict meaning, whatever it is, to people who spend a lot of time in front of the mirror and the rest of the time observing closely what everybody else is wearing. But classic clothing does not by definition fit well. That's up to you, the wearer to make sure it fits before...
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    Films and shows that COULD NEVER Be Made Today!

    Those are good examples of a line of comedy which turns out with the punch line being entirely unexpected, like the one about the slot machine. Still, I think it's funny (in a curious way) how we can be surrounded by so many things, which can be so threatening to some people, yet which most...
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    A couple of fashion pet peeves...

    What an interesting thread. How did I miss it and not make foolish comments already. I don't think manufacturers create fashion: they follow it and follow it intensely, just the same as some of you do. Has there ever been a time when the factories were making things people didn't want. You fail...
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    Films and shows that COULD NEVER Be Made Today!

    I don't find it offensive; I just don't find it funny. But it is typical that stereotypical and ethnic humor is both most employed by and most enjoyed by members of the subset of society that the humor is about, be it Southern rednecks or New York Jews and everything in between. It is people...
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    Films and shows that COULD NEVER Be Made Today!

    Perhaps you'd like to read that over and think about what you're suggesting. And while you're at it, perhaps you'd like to explain how government help for college expenses is "not that hard to get."
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    Films and shows that COULD NEVER Be Made Today!

    That sounds like a term that if someone else used the expression to describe a Cajun, it would be offensive but not if a Cajun used it, assuming for the moment that "Cajun" is not considered offensive. It probably is, though. It's well to keep in mind that in the movies and on television, the...
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    Films and shows that COULD NEVER Be Made Today!

    Usually, the ones who make the most fun of a stereotyped group of people, like Southerners, for instance, are members of that group. They understand what makes it different, what makes it tick and perhaps, know you can get away with more when you're really making fun of yourself. In other words...
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    Films and shows that COULD NEVER Be Made Today!

    This can't pass without mention of Ma and Pa Kettle. Rural types, to be sure, but not everyone who lives outside is a hillbilly. A "country Jake," perhaps, but not a real hillbilly. I think other parts of the country have the equivalent of a hillbilly, from Swamp Yankee to whatever they call a...
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    Films and shows that COULD NEVER Be Made Today!

    I think the hillbilly gimmick, to put it one way, goes back a long ways in motion pictures. Personally, I don't find it any worse than a movie made about someone in The Bowery or anyplace (Anytown, U.S.A.). It was in the comics, too, in Li'l Abner. And remember the Plenty family in Dick Tracy...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I realize that the chart above, as well as the notions of high brow, etc., and books like the Peter Principle are done in a light-hearted manner but there's still a great deal of truth in them, as should be obvious from looking at the chart. Still, it is confining and suggests there are fewer...
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    Contrary to what others may believe, there's only so much you can do about your body, although it's easy enough put on the pounds. But one will see frequent indications from before WWII that people were more concerned then with gaining weight than in losing it. It was probably a reflection of...
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    Old gas stations

    Tell me again why we call them the good old days.
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    Show us your Guns!

    Ah! That's more like it. I have a photo of my father wearing one of those in a reverse draw holster. He's in uniform standing in front of a Jeep, cap tilted just so in a very non-regulation way. There are still new 1917 S&W revolvers around but good luck finding one. S&W calls it the M22 now...
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    Films and shows that COULD NEVER Be Made Today!

    Unfortunately, stereotypes are based on reality, but then the stereotype is applied to everyone. It takes no stretch of the imagination to picture good guys and bad guys everywhere, along with funny accents, unfamiliar foods and slightly different morals. Sometimes people from somewhere else...
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    Films and shows that COULD NEVER Be Made Today!

    Goodness! I thought I used to watch a lot of television. But, apparently, I missed a few years for one reason or another. But, television being what it is (everywhere), it's difficult not to be exposed to bits and pieces of programming now and then. I don't care if something could be made now...
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    Apparently, nude human figures have timeless and universal appeal. And unlike clothed representations, they never become dated. Or do they?
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I have seen some early cartoon strips that included, if not featured, some topless women. These were presumably intended for the daily papers, too. In fact, topless women were not unheard of in older movies, too, both fictional and documentary short subjects. But, typically, just like in the...
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    Sometimes the "Euros" (I assume you mean Europeans and not the currency) are embarrassed in their liberal attitudes towards sex because it led to the development of a pornography industry there sooner than it did here. But if you've traveled in Europe, you will find that Europeans are just as...
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    I have never been sure that nudity and sex are ever separated, except, perhaps, for the "little people." That's not to say that sex is sinful or evil, only that to say that it's difficult to honestly admit that the two are unrelated, even in a clinical way. On the other hand, it's said that...

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